Architecture

The research carried out by the Department of Architecture distinguishes itself by the focus on architecture as an expanded cultural field of expertise; a discursive field in which making and thinking, design and research, history and theory are inextricably, yet complexly, linked. The research programme addresses contemporary architectural production as a projective moment in which cultural, social, functional, philosophical, economic and ecological factors are articulated as a concrete spatial and material configuration.

The research programme of the Department of Architecture is carried out by five research units, each with its own approaches, methodologies, and relationships to the current state of affairs in contemporary architecture:

Taken together, these five research units consider the different practices, genealogies, types, phenomenologies, and theories in and of architecture. Two overarching, departmental research themes to which all five research units contribute are:

A departmental research committee encourages productive exhanges between the different research units and on shared research themes. Current (2023-2026) delegates serving on the departmental research committee are: Roberto Cavallo, Stefano Corbo, Salmomon Frausto, Janina Gosseye, Stefan Gzyl, Klaske Havik, Stavros Kousoulas, Rachel Lee, Ran Pan, Angeliki Sioli, Heidi Sohn, Manuela Triggianese, Mieke Vink, and Jurjen Zeinstra.

Research leader

Prof. Dr. Janina Gosseye

Theories of Architecture Fellowship Programme

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Building Knowledge

Building Knowledge focuses on the reconceptualization of the building and the repositioning of architecture in the age of New Technology through critical thinking, analysis, and the integration of knowledge in both education and research.

History, Form and Aesthetics

History, Form and Aesthetics studies long-term developments, design processes, and perceptions of architectural and urban forms. Seen through the lenses of history and form, the activities of History, Form and Aesthetics relate to both past and present, and to built and imagined places, from ruins to paper projects.

Public Building and Housing Design

Public Building and Housing Design investigates the multiple forms through which inhabitation takes place. It focuses on the spatial continuum that stretches from the domestic scale to that of public building, and approaches research both as a process, in which problems are simultaneously dissected, analysed and confronted from different perspectives, and as a tool to promote inclusive, sustainable, and resilient communities.

Situated Architecture

Situated Architecture takes the notion of situated experience as a common ground between academia and practice; as a topic to explore both conceptually and through material and building practice.

Theories, Territories, Transitions

Theories, Territories, Transitions assumes that theory is never just applied, and practice is never non-theoretical. In the development of theoretical points of view there is always a territory that supports, allows, and sustains them, as well as practices that transition between them and, in doing so, provoke new practices.

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